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I would not think LR supports external RAW editing. The idea is that LR does the RAW conversion and external editors do just the pixel polishing using mentioned formats for exchange.

uhhuh. The difference between nested and clipped is not very easy to grasp. It is one of the advanced and complicated features which may be very useful but feel quite artificial after the simplicity of PS.

Oh there is a media browser? I have not needed it as Finder and LightRoom present media quite nicely. I do not think media browser is any core functionality in AP, just afterthought addon.

Have you set view quality to Bilinear (best quality) in Preferences? Generally, when you have placed images in your document they are [image] layers, smart objects that you can manipulate non-destructively. It is not resampled until in export. That is a great feature. There may be need for some optimizations for onscreen presentations resampling routines, but generally my compositions have looked nice (I use high res images). Resize certainly needs some work, now it is rather rudimentary. It is not broken but misses basic features.

At first it seemed to me that there is a real difference like presented in OP attached images. After resample it was about exactly like original: Then I exported the image to upload it here. Something happened. Now I think there is something else going on. See attached images: 1 = AP image resize (lanczos) 2 = AP image resize in export (lanczos) 3 = Photoshop resize (bicubic) My guess is that AP fails to update image appearance onscreen. This appearance stays with save, but when exported I got properly resampled image above. Seems like a bug, not a feature.

Depends on keyboard language setting. For me it is shift-4 :lol: If everything else fails, copy it from a netpage. (here: €)

You can use any normal CMYK space and colour profile as colour format as this does not matter for compact colours. Use only pantone (green) and K100. PDF export should give a file with 2 plates, pantone and K. If you have Acrobat you can check with Output Preview.

There have been other requests about levels. Like auto button to set black and white points.

This is about the same problem that occurred in InDesign 2, black was rendered to grey in export. That is why there is now a preference named "Appearance of black".

I think AD exports text with drop shadows right, i.e. text stays vector and shadow is a bitmap below it. It possible to botch this by placing shadows or transparent objects over text objects.

Crop to size is not available, you have to crop and scale in different operations.

Usually white point means lightest area in an image. Like black point is the darkest. Levels is the best tool for setting these (at least in this version). AP uses the name light point also for colour balance tool, where Kelvins and tint are the operative parameters.

You can make a rectangle to a mask first and blur after. Totally editable. Just have to find the Effects-panel :-D

What is that? You can set rectangles transparent easily. Only problem they usually render to pixels in PDF export.

If you use good oldfashioned press 2 colour pantone is the way to go. You get the exact colours you see in the pantone color guide. If you use cheap online press you have to set for using CMYK I guess. There may be some businesses that print from RGB but I would not count them to be as vivid as on screen.

+1 Organized designer has all text sizes preconsidered and applied as styles... but I regularly find myself needing to size everything up a little. Or down.

HSL-tool in LR is quite similar to AP HSL tool. AP is 6 band targeting, LR has 8 bands. My opinion is that even LR implementation is poor. Photoshop HSL can target colours much more accurately as you can modify the bands and border limits. Even then it would help if I could also target luminosity areas (dark, middle, light) within same tool UI. That is now not possible with any app.

enough professionals bashing. It irks me too that AD/AP regularly places all panels in the middle of the screen and I have to move them manually several times a day. (Not to mention that toolbars go missing all the time when in separated mode.)

If you export to common pixel formats crop certainly is baked in in export. Something else is happening here. I suspect a workflow problem (user error in other words).

I think all blend modes are rasterized in export. PDF have no support for blend modes (I think) and AD is not smart enough to rebuild export file as flattened vector.

Rendering happens for monitors. CMYK colour in vector object usually stays as it is though its appearance on screen may be altered by using colour profiled work flow. That is why CMYK objects can have slightly different look when printed to different materials or with different processes. Usually colour output is not fitted to different press processed. If company colour is C60Y100 it looks different on different materials. (Of course professional printer manages colour output to achieve maximum quality, but he does not really compensate material differences so much.) Photographs and pixel art are fitted to processes using different conversion profiles for different devices. OP, I have no answer for your question. What kind of work flow you have? Do you have any idea why any RGB profile mixup would be happening? Your document colour format is CMYK8, right?

(If you use mac) try Graphic Converter by Lemke Software. Opens about any old format images, you can save to some more modern format. Trial version should be good enough (I am not sure if batch conversion work in tryout).

Layer> New Adjustment Layer> Levels Adjustment. Press option (alt) key to show clipping. (I wish Curves had this too.)

I think AD modules are not so big that loading them is any problem.

Flattening the PDF for print means all transparencies are removed from the file. Mostly this means that transparencies are rendered to bitmaps. This can be tricky in AD. 300 dpi images in PDF are fine. I certainly would not render text elements to bitmap.